Glasses-free reflective 3d color display

ABSTRACT

A glasses-free reflective 3D color display includes a reflective color display configured to display a reflective color image by using light entering from the outside and configured to form a left eye image and a right eye image, and a lens array configured so that each lens corresponds to a pair of pixels of the reflective color display and configured to separate the left eye image and the right eye image formed in the reflective color display.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No.10-2013-0009502, filed on Jan. 28, 2013, in the Korean IntellectualProperty Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in itsentirety by reference.

BACKGROUND

1. Field

The present disclosure relates to glasses-free reflective 3D colordisplays.

2. Description of the Related Art

In the case of outdoor advertising displays that use external light ormobile displays that are expected to be used outdoors, such as mobilephones or mobile game machines, it is necessary to make sure that thedisplays remain visible regardless of the ambient brightness. In abright environment, image contrast of a display may be reduced sinceambient light reaches the eyes of viewers after being reflected by asurface of the display. Also, light reflected by the surface of thedisplay and light emitted from a panel of the display may be mixed. Thismay be a cause of reduced color purity of the display. Thus, when it isrequired to use the display for long hours, reducing the powerconsumption of the panel is possible using a reflective display thatuses ambient light as a light source.

Generally, displays are desired to have low power consumption and highperformance. A representative example of a low power consumption displayis a reflective display that uses external light as a light source, anda representative example of a high performance display is a 3D display.Accordingly, a reflective 3D display that simultaneously has low powerconsumption and high performance is considered to be the next generationdisplay.

In order to display a 3D image on a reflective display outdoors, aglasses-free reflective 3D display is convenient for use instead of astereoscopic display that additionally requires the use of a pair ofglasses. A parallax barrier and a lenticular lens method are typicalmethods for realizing a glasses-free reflective 3D display.

SUMMARY

Provided are glasses-free reflective 3D color displays that use alenticular lens method in order to avoid difficulties in using externallight as a light source.

Additional aspects will be set forth in part in the description whichfollows and, in part, will be apparent from the description, or may belearned by practice of the presented example embodiments.

According to some example embodiments of the present invention, aglasses-free reflective 3D color display includes: a reflective colordisplay configured to display a reflective color image by using lightentering from the outside and configured to form a left eye image and aright eye image; and a lens array configured so that a lens correspondsto a pair of pixels of the reflective color display and configured toseparate the left eye image and the right eye image formed by thereflective color display.

The reflective color display may include a reflective color filter thatincludes a plurality of reflective color filter elements per unit pixel,and a shutter configured to variably control an intensity of lightentering the reflective color filter to form a left eye color image anda right eye color image on the pair of pixels.

The reflective color filter may have a specular reflectioncharacteristic.

The reflective color filter may be a color filter including multi-layerthin films.

The reflective color filter may be formed by alternately and repeatedlystacking a metal layer and a dielectric layer.

Each of the reflective color filter elements may be formed to reflect aspecific color by controlling a thickness of each of the multi-layerthin films.

The metal layer may include a material including silver or othermetallic material.

The dielectric layer may include a material selected from the groupconsisting of Al₂O₃, ZnS, TiO₂, SiO₂, MgF₂, and Ta₂O₅.

The reflective color filter includes a high refractive material layerand a low refractive material layer stacked in an alternating pattern.

Each of the reflective color filter elements may be configured toreflect a specific color by controlling a thickness of each ofmulti-layer thin films.

The lens array may include a plurality of lenticular lenses, so thateach lenticular lens corresponds to the pair of pixels of the reflectivecolor display.

The lenticular lens may be disposed so that a first angle of a focused3D image is biased in a range from about 5 degrees to about 15 degreesfrom the vertical.

The lens array may include a plurality of integral imaging lens arraysso that an integral imaging lens corresponds to the pair of pixels ofthe reflective color display.

As described above, according to an example embodiment of the presentinvention, a glasses-free reflective 3D color display may be realized byusing a lenticular lens method so as not to disrupt use of externallight as a light source and by using the reflective color filter.

Also, the reflective color filter is formed of a structural color filterthat reflects light like a specular, and thus, the brightness ofreflected light may further be increased.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and/or other aspects will become apparent and more readilyappreciated from the following description of the example embodiments,taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of a glasses-free reflective 3D colordisplay according to an example embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing showing an arrangement of lenticularlenses corresponding to a situation where a light source is located on afront side and a viewer looks at a slight angle with respect to adisplay;

FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing showing a geometric light path at alenticular lens in a reflective type;

FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing showing a geometric photonic path at alenticular lens with respect to a case having a diffusibility;

FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C respectively show a light condensing state ofincident light to a viewer with respect to a case that a color filter isspecular, a case that the color filter is an ideal diffusive, and a casethat the color filter is a real diffusive limited by a lenticular lensstructure;

FIG. 6A is a drawing showing an angle 2A in which an entire pixel p isviewed;

FIG. 6B is a drawing showing an angle O in which a pixel is actuallyviewed by a lenticular lens structure; and

FIG. 7 is a schematic drawing of a glasses-free reflective 3D colordisplay according to another example embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

As described above, in order to display a 3D image on a reflectivedisplay used outdoors, a glasses-free 3D display is beneficial incomparison to a stereoscopic display that requires a viewer toadditionally use a pair of glasses all the time.

A parallax barrier and a lenticular lens method are typical methods usedfor realizing a glasses-free 3D image display. These methods shouldensure that the use of external light as a light source is notdisrupted, and if the light source is disrupted, the use of lenticularlenses is appropriate.

A reflective display in which it is assumed that incident light entersin the same direction as the viewer with respect to a display planerequires a structure that does not interrupt the incident light as muchas possible. Accordingly, of the parallax barrier and the lenticularlens structures that are currently general methods for realizing aglasses-free 3D image display, the parallax barrier structure is notsuitable to apply to a reflective display since the parallax barrierstructure does not utilize half of incident light.

A transmission display considers an optical path only to the eyes sincea light source is disposed on an opposite side of the lenticular lensinterposing a display plane between the light source and the lenticularlens. Unlike the transmission display, in a reflective display, sinceboth the incident light and reflective light pass through the lenticularlens, the lenticular lens should be considered to simultaneouslycorrespond to both the incident light and the reflective light and to abinocular disparity.

Also, in a lenticular lens applied to a general transmission display, asituation where light is perpendicularly incident from an opposite sideof a display plane is assumed. However, in a reflective display, an axisthat is exactly perpendicular to a display plane only corresponds to asituation in which a light source is placed between the eyes of anobserver and the reflective display, and thus, is not a naturalsituation. Accordingly, a situation in which incident light and lightreflected by a display progresses in a non-perpendicular path should beconsidered.

In a glasses-free reflective 3D color display according to an exampleembodiment of the present invention, a reflective color filter isrealized in a multi-layer thin film to indicate an interference color byspecular reflection. Thus, a reflective color display suitable for aglasses-free 3D display is realized having higher brightness andresponding well to an optical path in a lenticular lens through thespecular reflection.

Hereinafter, a glasses-free reflective 3D color display according to thepresent invention will be described with reference to drawings. In thedrawings, like reference numerals denote like elements, and the sizesand thicknesses of constituent elements are exaggerated for clarity andconvenience of explanation.

FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of a glasses-free reflective 3D colordisplay according to an example embodiment of the present invention. InFIG. 1 and the following drawings, the structure of reflective colorfilters and shutters of regions corresponding to two pairs of pixels ofthe glasses-free reflective 3D color display is shown for clarity. Theglasses-free reflective 3D color display includes a two dimensionalpixel array and each pixel includes a plurality of subpixels. Forexample, each pixel includes R, G, and B subpixels.

Referring to FIG. 1, the glasses-free reflective 3D color displayincludes a reflective color display 100 and a lens array 200 in which asingle lens corresponds to a pair of pixels of the reflective colordisplay 100. The reflective color display 100 displays a reflectivecolor image by using light incident from the outside, and a driving unitdrives the reflective color display 100 to form a left eye color imageand a right eye color image. The lens array 200 separates the left eyecolor image and the right eye color image formed in the reflective colordisplay 100.

The reflective color display 100 includes reflective color filter 130and shutter 150 that are driven by the driving unit and variably controlintensity of light incident to the reflective color filter 130. Thereflective color display 100 may have a structure in which thereflective color filter 130 is formed on a substrate 110 and the shutter150 is disposed on the reflective color filter 130. The reflective colordisplay 100 may be manufactured to realize a full color by the mountedreflective color filter 130.

The reflective color filter 130 may include a plurality of reflectivecolor filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c. For example, thereflective color filter 130 may include R, G, and B reflective colorfilter elements per unit pixel. The reflective color filter elements 130a, 130 b, and 130 c per unit pixel of the reflective color filter 130may realize any combination that forms a color region in a color space.

The reflective color filter 130 may be configured to reflect light thatis incident in an arbitrary direction, such as specular light, as amirror image. The reflective color filter 130 may be formed as amulti-layer thin film color filter, for example, a multi-layer thin filmphotonic crystal color filter. Each of the reflective color filterelements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c may be formed to reflect only light ofa specific color by controlling a thickness of each layer of themulti-layer thin films. The multi-layer thin films of the reflectivecolor filter 130 may be formed by alternately and repeatedly stacking ametal layer and a dielectric layer or by alternately stacking a highrefractive material layer and a low refractive material layer to amplifyor erase a specific wavelength by a mutual interference of reflectionbetween the thin films. Thus, the multi-layer thin films of thereflective color filter 130 may reflect a specific wavelength ofincident light. If the thickness of each layer of the thin films of eachof the reflective color filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c isformed to reflect a specific color, the reflective color filter elements130 a, 130 b, and 130 c may selectively reflect light of color, forexample, red color R, green color G, and blue color B. The reflectivecolor filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c are formed to form amulti-layer thin film structure by using the same material regardless ofthe color to be selectively reflected, and may be formed to function asreflective red color R, green color G, and blue color B elements bydifferentiating the thicknesses of the thin films. For example, thethickness of each layer of the multi-layer thin films of the reflectivecolor filter element 130 a may be defined to reflect only light of redcolor R, the thickness of each layer of the multi-layer thin films ofthe reflective color filter element 130 b may be defined to reflect onlylight of green color G, and the thickness of each layer of themulti-layer thin films of the reflective color filter element 130 c maybe defined to reflect only light of blue color B. If the reflectivecolor filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c are structured with ametal layer and a dielectric layer alternately and repeatedly stacked,the multi-layer thin films may be formed to have a regularity, forexample a photonic crystal structure, by forming the metal layers tohave the same thickness as each other and also the dielectric layers tohave the same thickness as each other. Similarly, if the reflectivecolor filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c are structured with a highrefractive material layer and a low refractive material layeralternately and repeatedly stacked, the multi-layer thin films may beformed to have a regularity, for example a photonic crystal structure,by forming the high refractive material layers to have the samethickness as each other and also the low refractive material layers tohave the same thickness as each other.

If the reflective color filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c arestructured with a metal layer and a dielectric layer alternately andrepeatedly stacked, the metal layer may include or be formed of amaterial containing silver, and the dielectric layer may include or beformed of a material selected from the group consisting of Al₂O₃, ZnS,TiO₂, SiO₂, MgF₂, and Ta₂O₅.

If a metal layer is used in the reflective color filter 130 as describedabove, there is nearly no color change even though a viewing angle isvaried, and thus, a viewing angle to the color may be widened.

The size of the reflective color filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130c, for example, R, G, and B color filter elements included in a unitpixel of the reflective color filter 130, may be formed larger acoherence length of white light, for example 10 μm or more, in order toprevent a diffractive interference between the reflective color filterelements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c.

The shutter 150 variably controls the intensity of light incident on thereflective color filter 130 so that a left eye color image is formed ona pixel and a right eye color image is formed on the other pixel in eachpair of pixels. The shutter 150 may be provided to correspond to thearrangement of the reflective color filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and130 c of the reflective color filter 130. For example, the shutter 150may be formed to have a two dimensional pixel array structure, andinclude a plurality of subpixels 150 a, 150 b, and 150 c correspondingto the reflective color filter elements 130 a, 130 b, and 130 c in aunit pixel of the reflective color filter 130.

The lens array 200 may be formed of a plurality of lenticular lensarrays in which a single lenticular lens 210 is arranged to correspondto a pair of pixels of the reflective color display 100. In order todisplay a 3D image of 2-views, that is, left eye and right eye views byseparating an image, a single lenticular lens unit may be disposed tocorrespond to a pixel that forms a left eye image and another pixel thatforms a right eye image. As a result, an image obtained by thereflective color display 100 may be focused in 2-views of a left eyecolor image and a right eye color image.

According to the glasses-free reflective 3D color display according toan example embodiment of the present invention, two pixels that realizea single complete full color form a pair, and one of the two pixelsreproduces a color image corresponding to the left eye and the otherpixel reproduces a color image corresponding to the right eye. A columnof the lenticular lenses 210 may correspond to a 3D image display unitformed of a pair of pixels.

The lenticular lens 210 may be designed for a situation in which leftand right eyes exist on vertical axis of the lenticular lens 210, or asituation in which a first angle (corresponding to 0^(th)-order lightfor diffracted light) of a 3D image focused by the lenticular lens 210is biased from about 5 degrees to about 15 degrees from the verticalaxis. In the above two situations, the lenticular lens 210 may bedesigned so that a proceeding path of light corresponds to viewer's eyesby an accurate specular reflection with respect to incident lightcorresponding to a virtual view point that is equal to an angle betweenthe viewer's eye and a vertical line of the display and is located at anopposite side of the vertical line. The lenticular lenses 210 should bearranged in a vertical direction with respect to a horizontal direction,such as a plane where the two eyes exist. Accordingly, as indicated inFIG. 2, when a light source exists on a front side of the lenticularlenses 210, like a two dimensional transmission type with respect to thetwo eyes, it may be considered similar to an optical path of atransmission type display in which light progresses perpendicularly withrespect to the display plane. In a reflective display, the display planeis regarded as a mirror surface. Thus, as indicated in FIG. 3, it may beconsidered that a virtual light source and a virtual optical path existsymmetrically opposite sides of the display plane.

FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing showing an arrangement of lenticularlenses 210 corresponding to a situation in which a light source islocated on a front side and a viewer looks at a slight angle withrespect to a display.

A z-axis direction of FIG. 2 may be regarded as a plane with respect tothe progress of light, and thus, it is a basic structure in whichcylindrical shape lenticular lenses 210 are arranged with respect to thez-axis direction. Also, as described below with reference to FIG. 7,lenses 310 (refer to FIG. 7) of integral imaging method may be arrangedto be discontinuous in the z-axis direction with respect to the pixels.Therefore, light focusing efficiency of reflective pixels may beincreased and accordingly, brightness of the display may be increased.This is particularly useful for increasing brightness of outdooradvertisement displays because angles to view the outdoor advertisementdisplay in a perpendicular direction are limited. Thus, the abovearrangement may gather light from angles that are not directlycorresponding to the viewing angle of eyes.

FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing showing a geometric light path at thelenticular lens 210 in a reflective type display. In FIG. 3, it may beconsidered that a light source exists in 2 points corresponding to thetwo eyes with respect to a display plane. This corresponds well to asituation in which uniform light enters in all directions in an externallight atmosphere.

In the glasses-free reflective 3D color display according to an exampleembodiment of the present invention, as described above, the reflectivecolor filter 130 may be formed to have a specular reflectioncharacteristic.

Here, if a reflection surface that reflects incident light has adiffusive reflection characteristic, not a specular reflectioncharacteristic, as indicated in FIG. 4, a portion of light that entersto the display plane from every direction is diffusively reflected. Inorder to emit reflected light having the same intensity as that ofincident light in the same area, according to a definition such asEquation 2, light should be input in all remaining angles. Equation 1shows a relationship between the intensity I_(input) of incident lightand the intensity I_(output) of reflected light when a reflectionsurface has a specular reflection characteristic. Equation 2 shows arelationship between the intensity I_(input) of incident light and theintensity I_(output) of reflected light when a reflection surface has adiffusive reflection characteristic.

[Equation 1]

I _(output) =I _(input)

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When a reflective color filter has an ideal diffusive reflectioncharacteristic as in a dye type color filter, for example an absorptiontype color filter, an output when the reflective color filter has aspecular reflection characteristic and an output when the reflectivecolor filter has an ideal diffusive reflection characteristic are equal.This corresponds to a situation when incident light having the sameintensity enters in all directions from 0 degree to 180 degrees withrespect to a diffusive surface. When the reflective color filter has aspecular reflection characteristic, as indicated in FIG. 5A, theintensity of a light source of incident angle corresponding to aspecular reflection angle enters the eyes. In the case of a dye colorfilter, as depicted in FIG. 5B, portions of incident light entering thecolor filter in all directions are scattered and enter the eyes.However, as indicated in FIG. 5C, due to a lenticular lens structure,light beyond an opening angle of the lenticular lens 210 may not enterto the eyes. FIG. 5 corresponds to a case that a reflection surface isincluded on a dye color filter, for example, a typical absorptive colorfilter.

FIGS. 5A through 5C show a focusing state of incident light by a viewerwhen a reflective color filter has a specular reflection characteristicand a diffusive reflection characteristic. FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5Crespectively show a focusing state of incident light to a viewer whenthe reflective color filter is specular, when the reflective colorfilter is an ideal diffusive, and when the reflective color filter is areal diffusive limited by a lenticular lens structure. As shown in FIG.5C, light in all directions may not enter the color filter due to theshape of the lenticular lens 210, and, for example, approximately 90% oftotal external light may enter to the eyes.

Accordingly, when the display plane is a specular surface, thebrightness of reflected light is increased.

FIG. 6A is a drawing showing an angle 2A in which an entire pixel p isviewed. FIG. 6B is a drawing showing an angle O in which a pixel isactually viewed by a lenticular lens structure. Upon comparing FIG. 6Aand FIG. 6B, it is seen that the angle O in which the real pixel isviewed is reduced as much as 2I from the angle 2A in which the entirepixel is viewed. Here, r is a radius of curvature of the lenticular lens210, h is minimum distance between a pixel and the lenticular lens 210,and p is a pixel size. Also, R=A-arctan (p/h).

When O=64.6°, p=336.65 μm, r=190.5 μm, h=457 μm, and refractive indexn=1.557, calculated brightness of a reflected light is approximately0.9.

As described above, since approximately 90% of the total external lightenters the reflective color filter 130 due to the lenticular lens 210structure, when the reflective color filter 130 has a diffusivereflection characteristic, the brightness of the reflected light isreduced as much as the diffusion. However, in the current exampleembodiment, when the reflective color filter 130 is configured to have aspecular reflection characteristic, a reflected light has the intensityof the incident light. Accordingly, the brightness of the reflectedlight may be increased by minimum about 1.1 times or more when comparedto a general case. Here, the about 1.1 times is a value obtained byassuming that an absorption rate of an absorptive color filter is zerowhen the reflective color filter 130 with a diffusive reflectioncharacteristic is a structure of an absorptive color filter and areflection surface generally applied to a reflective display. Inaddition, an absorptive color filter has a self-color absorption rate.Therefore, when the reflective color filter 130 with a specularreflection characteristic is used, as in the current example embodiment,the brightness of reflected light may be increased by at least about 1.5times to about two times greater than when the reflective color filter130 with a diffusive reflection characteristic is used.

In the descriptions above, for example, an example embodiment of theglasses-free reflective 3D color display with a lenticular lens arrayformed of lenticular lenses as the lens array 200 is shown anddescribed. However, example embodiments of the present invention are notlimited thereto.

As depicted in FIG. 7, the glasses-free reflective 3D color displayaccording to an example embodiment of the present invention may include,as a lens array 300, an array of lenses 310 of an integral imagingmethod in which the lenses 310 are disconnected in a vertical direction(in the z axis direction of FIG. 2) with respect to a plane where twoeyes are located with respect to pixels. At this point, a singleintegral imaging lens is disposed to correspond to a pair of pixels ofthe reflective color display.

In this way, a condensing efficiency with respect to reflective pixelsmay further be increased by arranging the lenses 310 of an integralimaging method whereby the lenses 310 are disconnected in the z-axiswith respect to the pixels, and accordingly, the brightness of thepixels may further be increased. For outdoor advertisement displays, anangle in a perpendicular direction to view the displays is limited.Therefore, this is particularly useful for increasing brightness ofoutdoor advertisement displays by gathering light of angles that are notdirectly corresponding to the viewing angle of eyes.

As described above, in the glasses-free reflective 3D color displayaccording to an example embodiment of the present invention, a colordisplay that reflects external light may reproduce a glasses-freereflective 3D image. Thus, it is possible to obtain an image having thesame quality as an image generated by a transmission type glasses-free3D display.

The glasses-free reflective 3D color display according to an exampleembodiment of the present invention may be used in outdoor sign boards,mobile phones, or portable game devices with mobile displays. For anoutdoor display installed in outside, since an external light source,such as the sun, is typically present above the passers-by, it ispossible that a viewer sees a 3D image from the outdoor display when thehe passes a specific point. In this case, the outdoor display may beeffective in attracting the interest of more passers-by in comparison toa conventional display.

Also, in the case of a mobile display that is kept in one hand, an imageis typically viewed in a perpendicular direction to the display plane.Therefore, realization of a 3D image according to an example embodimentof the present invention is expected to increase performance of mobiledisplay in combination with the low power consumption, which is a meritof a reflective display.

It should be understood that the example embodiments described thereinshould be considered in a descriptive sense only and not for purposes oflimitation. Descriptions of the features or aspects within each exampleembodiment should typically be considered as available for other similarfeatures or aspects in other example embodiments.

What is claimed is:
 1. A glasses-free reflective 3D color displaycomprising: a reflective color display configured to display areflective color image by using light entering from the outside andconfigured to form a left eye image and a right eye image; and a lensarray configured so that each lens corresponds to a pair of pixels ofthe reflective color display and configured to separate the left eyeimage and the right eye image formed by the reflective color display. 2.The glasses-free reflective 3D color display of claim 1, wherein thereflective color display comprises: a reflective color filter includinga plurality of reflective color filter elements per unit pixel; and ashutter configured to variably control an intensity of light enteringthe reflective color filter to form a left eye color image and a righteye color image on the pair of pixels.
 3. The glasses-free reflective 3Dcolor display of claim 2, wherein the reflective color filter has aspecular reflection characteristic.
 4. The glasses-free reflective 3Dcolor display of claim 2, wherein the reflective color filter is a colorfilter including multi-layer thin films.
 5. The glasses-free reflective3D color display of claim 4, wherein the reflective color filter isformed by alternately and repeatedly stacking a metal layer and adielectric layer.
 6. The glasses-free reflective 3D color display ofclaim 5, wherein each of the reflective color filter elements is formedto reflect a specific color by controlling a thickness of each of themulti-layer thin films.
 7. The glasses-free reflective 3D color displayof claim 5, wherein the metal layer includes a material including silveror other metallic material.
 8. The glasses-free reflective 3D colordisplay of claim 7, wherein the dielectric layer includes a materialselected from the group consisting of Al₂O₃, ZnS, TiO₂, SiO₂, MgF₂, andTa₂O₅.
 9. The glasses-free reflective 3D color display of claim 5,wherein the dielectric layer includes a material selected from the groupconsisting of Al₂O₃, ZnS, TiO₂, SiO₂, MgF₂, and Ta₂O₅.
 10. Theglasses-free reflective 3D color display of claim 2, wherein thereflective color filter includes a high refractive material layer and alow refractive material layer stacked in an alternating pattern.
 11. Theglasses-free reflective 3D color display of claim 10, wherein each ofthe reflective color filter elements is configured to reflect a specificcolor by controlling a thickness of each of multi-layer thin films. 12.The glasses-free reflective 3D color display of claim 1, wherein thelens array includes a plurality of lenticular lenses so that eachlenticular lens corresponds to the pair of pixels of the reflectivecolor display.
 13. The glasses-free reflective 3D color display of claim12, wherein the lenticular lens is configured so that a first angle of afocused 3D image is biased in a range from about 5 degrees to about 15degrees from the vertical.
 14. The glasses-free reflective 3D colordisplay of claim 1, wherein the lens array includes a plurality ofintegral imaging lens so that an integral imaging lens corresponds tothe pair of pixels of the reflective color display.